Guess Trump really *did* enjoy his SooperSekrit Iraq drop-in… he got to hang around with real live G.I. Joes, and some of them were properly thrilled when he signed MAGA hats for them. Not sure his minions understood that normal people might have different reactions…

Not every president has the political genius to drive home to . every last voter in America that his most feared political opponent wanted to meet troops in a war zone that he himself had been too frightened to visit

https://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpg00Anne Lauriehttps://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/balloon_juice_header_logo_grey.jpgAnne Laurie2019-01-18 02:35:552019-01-18 02:35:55'Junkets' Under Fire Open Thread: Calling Trump's Cronies Amateurs Is An Insult to People Who Don't Get Paid

NBC: Trump administration officials weighed speeding up the deportation of migrant children by denying them their legal right to asylum hearings after separating them from their parents, according to comments on a late 2017 draft of what became the administration’s family separation policy obtained by NBC News.

The draft also shows officials wanted to specifically target parents in migrant families for increased prosecutions, contradicting the administration’s previous statements. In June, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the administration did “not have a policy of separating families at the border” but was simply enforcing existing law.

The authors noted that the “increase in prosecutions would be reported by the media and it would have a substantial deterrent effect.”

The draft plan was provided to NBC News by the office of Sen. Jeff Merkley, D.-Ore., which says it was leaked by a government whistleblower.

yes, turtles need regular watering. It could become an annual pilgrimage Pissin on Mitch.

Why limit it to micturation? Why not a big job and jazz it up by making it a contest, to appeal to America’s natural competitive instinct? It could be scheduled for the first Sunday in February and called “Super Bowel”.

I obviously turned off the internet news too early last night. Missed the Buzzfeed article. (WOW.)

I wonder, though: is this bad?

through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.
This revelation is not the first evidence to suggest the president may have attempted to obstruct the FBI and special counsel investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

@Mezz: Yeah, I’m reading this, too, and thinking “How did I miss this?!??” (I went to bed early). Given the quote from Trump of “Make it happen”, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Cohen has recordings of the arrangement and just hasn’t released them at Mueller’s request.
PS Don Jr.’s been very quiet lately. Interesting.

@Keith P.: In a purely selfish way, the timing of this is supremely frustrating, as I have a ton of work to do just now, and the siren call of Twitter today will be especially potent, I can already tell. Also, if we could please, more on the Liberty University/poll rigging angle. Seems entertaining.

In an unselfish way: MORE, FASTER, CRITICAL MASS. I’m pretty imaginative as to the misdeeds a President can do (as a US historian), and my imagined scandal is pretty dire, yet the more evidence and info that trickles out, still nothing in that imagined scandal seems wrong yet.
And that is fking TERRIFYING.

You jackals talking about pissing on McConnell’s grave are a bunch of feckin’ amateurs. Not in your choice(s) of pre-piss culinary treats, of course. But why are all you kiddies waiting until he’s six feet under? He deserves it right-the-fuck NOW. Every fucking day.

[Note: I am not suggesting it be limited to pissing on him, by the way.]

Not every president has the political genius to drive home to . every last voter in America that his most feared political opponent wanted to meet troops in a war zone that he himself had been too frightened to visit

“When you’re a republican, they let you do it. You can do anything. Be a pussy. You can do anything.”

Apologies to people (including myself) who don’t like the word pussy being used for anything besides cats and oppressed bands, but I play the hand I’m dealt.